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A Landscape with a Convoy on a Wooded Track Under Attack Oil on Panel 44 X 64 Cm (17⅜ X 25¼ In)
Sebastian Vrancx (Antwerp 1573 - Antwerp 1647) A Landscape with a Convoy on a Wooded Track under Attack oil on panel 44 x 64 cm (17⅜ x 25¼ in) Sebastian Vrancx was one of the first artists in the Netherlands to attempt battle scenes and A Landscape with Convoy on a Wooded Track under Attack offers an excellent example of his work. A wagon is under attack from bandits who have been hiding in the undergrowth on the right-hand side of the painting. The wagon has stopped as its driver flees for the safety of the bushes, whilst its occupants are left stranded inside. The wagon is guarded by three soldiers on horseback but in their startled state none have managed to engage their attackers. A line of bandits emerge from their hiding place and circle behind and around their victims, thus adding further to the confusion. Two figures remain in the bushes to provide covering fire and above them, perched in a tree, is one of their companions who has been keeping watch for the convoy and now helps to direct the attack. The scene is set in a softly coloured and brightly-lit landscape, which contrasts with the darker theme of the painting. Attack of Robbers, another scene of conflict, in the Hermitage, also possesses the decorative qualities and Vrancx’s typically poised figures, just as in A Landscape with a Convoy on a Wooded Track under Attack. A clear narrative, with travellers on horses attempting to ward off robbers, creates a personal and absorbing image. It once more reveals Vrancx’s delight in detailing his paintings with the dynamic qualities that make his compositions appealing on both an aesthetic and historical level. -
The Petrifying Gaze of Medusa: Ambivalence, Ekplexis, and the Sublime
Volume 8, Issue 2 (Summer 2016) The Petrifying Gaze of Medusa: Ambivalence, Ekplexis, and the Sublime Caroline van Eck [email protected] Recommended Citation: Caroline van Eck, “The Sublime and the “The Petrifying Gaze of Medusa: Ambivalence, Ekplexis, and the Sublime,” JHNA 8:2 (Summer 2016), DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2016.8.2.3 Available at https://jhna.org/articles/petrifying-gaze-medusa-ambivalence-explexis-sublime/ Published by Historians of Netherlandish Art: https://hnanews.org/ Republication Guidelines: https://jhna.org/republication-guidelines/ Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. This PDF provides paragraph numbers as well as page numbers for citation purposes. ISSN: 1949-9833 JHNA 7:2 (Summer 2015) 1 THE PETRIFYING GAZE OF MEDUSA: AMBIVALENCE, EKPLEXIS, AND THE SUBLIME Caroline van Eck The Dutch art theorists Junius and van Hoogstraten describe the sublime, much more explicitly and insistently than in Longinus’s text, as the power of images to petrify the viewer and to stay fixed in their memory. This effect can be related to Longinus’s distinction between poetry and prose. Prose employs the strategy of enargeia; poetry that of ekplexis, or shattering the listener or reader. This essay traces the notion of ekplexis in Greek rhetoric, particularly in Hermogenes, and shows the connections in etymology, myth, and pictorial traditions, between the petrifying powers of art and the myth of Medusa. DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2016.8.2.3 Introduction Fig. 1 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Medusa, ca. -
(1936), Door the Courtauld Institute of Art. I
Overzicht der Litteratuur betreffende Nederlandsche Kunst Engeland en Amerika (1936), door The Courtauld Institute of Art. I. ARCHITECTURE. 1. Bailey (Rosalie Fellows): Pre-revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York.... Photography by Margaret de M. Brown. Prepared under the auspices of the Holland Society of New York. New York: Morrow, 1936. (Chief stress is laid on the biographical and genealogical aspects of the subject. There is no technical discussion of architecture or structural development, but a thorough survey is given of all existing houses, which are described, illustrated and dated as far as possible). II. DRAWING. a. Dutch. 2. Dirck Barentz. - Pigler (Andrew): Dirck Barentz (1534-92) - Scene from the Old - Testament - Budapest, Museum of Fine Art Pen in bistre, etc. Old Master Drawings, Dec. 1936, XI, pp. 47-8, illus. (Depicts a rare subject from Kings II, ch. 13, v. 20-21, the resurrection of a man whose body was cast into the sepulchre of Elisha. The artist has hitherto been unidentified. The writer makes comparison with his other work, and draws attention to an apparent signature and what is possibly a documentary reference to the drawing). - 3. Rembrandt. - Kurz (Otto): Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) - Study of a lion - Vienna, coll. Liechtenstein Pen and wash, etc. Old Master Drawings, Dec. 1936, XI, pp. 51-2, illus. (A drawing not listed by Hofstede de Groot. The date of the group of lion studies is discussed in relation to the etchings of St. Jerome, the Great Lion Hunt and the Political Allegory). 4. Rembrandt. -
Here Is Reference to the Presence of Relics Associated with St
Preserved for Eternity on Obsidian A Baroque Painting Showing the Miracle of Milk at St. Catherine of Alexandria’s Martyrdom* mary l. pixley After the beheading of St. Catherine of Alexandria, milk flowed from her body instead of blood.1 Artists almost never depicted this scene in art, preferring to paint the more dramatic moment of Catherine with the infamous spiked wheels of torture or of her kneeling before her executioner, as he prepares to slice off her head with a sword. In a painting in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri (Figs. 1, 2, and front cover), the artist paired this uncommon subject matter with an equally rare support, a piece of obsidian, the mottled pattern of which forms part of the composition.2 Encased in a richly carved and gilded seventeenth-century French frame, this painting reveals the contemporary fashion for sophisticated paintings on semi-precious stone.3 1 PRESERVED FOR ETERNITY ON OBSIDIAN Fig. 1. Studio of Jacques Stella (French, 1596–1657). The Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria and the Miracle of Milk (detail), ca 1630, oil on obsidian. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri–Columbia, Gilbreath-McLorn Museum Fund (2009.126). Photo: Jeffrey Wilcox. St. Catherine Often considered an apocryphal saint whose feast day the Vatican abolished in 1969, St. Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in Europe during the Middle Ages and later. Following his papal visit in 2002 to Mount Sinai, Catherine’s supposed burial place, Pope John Paul II reinstated her feast day (November 25) as an optional memorial, a testimony to her enduring importance. -
The Papacy and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome
THE PAPACY AND THE ART OF REFORM IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ROME From his election in 1572 to his death in 1585, Pope Gregory XIII, schooled in the upheavals in the Catholic Church that marked the preceding violent decades, undertook to mend and reform the institution he headed by building and restoring Rome’s streets, churches, and public monuments. One major monument, unstudied heretofore, is the three-story apart- ment called the Tower of the Winds rising up from the Vatican Palace. It was built and painted to celebrate the most famous achievement of Gregory’s papacy, the calendar reform. The program of the entire tower proclaimed with assurance not only Gregory’s political and religious authority over the capital, but also Gregory’s domination of nature, time, and past and present cultures. Its innovations in architecture and decoration – efflorescent Flemish landscapes in all of its seven rooms – and its wider religious and political purpose in the cul- ture of Gregorian Rome and the Counter Reformation, are the subject of this book. Nicola Courtright is associate professor of fine arts at Amherst College. A scholar of Baroque art, she is a Fulbright and American Academy in Rome Fellow. THE PAPACY AND THE ART OF REFORM IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY i ROME j GREGORY XIII’S TOWER OF THE WINDS IN THE VATICAN nicola courtright Amherst College published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge university press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, usa 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org © Nicola Courtright 2003 This book is in copyright. -
From Artist to Audience Would Not Have Been Possible This Elegant and Professional Publication
FromITALIAN Artist DRAWINGS to AND Audience PRINTS from the 15th through 18th Centuries FromITALIAN Artist DRAWINGS to AND Audience PRINTS from the 15th through 18th Centuries Works from the Darlene K. Morris Collection March 4 – April 16, 2016 Curated by: C. Madeline Fritz Paris Humphrey Samantha Mendoza-Ferguson Sara Pattiz Rebecca Race Isabel Richards Samuel Richards THE TROUT GALLERY • Dickinson College • Carlisle, Pennsylvania This publication was produced in part through the generous support of the Helen Trout Memorial Fund and the Ruth Trout Endowment at Dickinson College. Published by The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013. Copyright © 2016 The Trout Gallery. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from The Trout Gallery. All photographs Andrew Bale, unless otherwise noted. Design: Amanda DeLorenzo, Dickinson College Office of Design Services Printing: Pemcor, Inc., Lancaster, Pennsylvania ISBN 978-0-9861263-0-7 Cover: Carlo Urbino (attributed), Study sheet with Two Standing Men, ca. 1560. Drawing. Courtesy Darlene K. Morris Collection (cat. 14). Back cover: Diana Mantuana (Ghisi, Scultori), Farnese Bull (The Punishment of Dirce), 1581. Engraving. Courtesy Darlene K. Morris Collection (cat. 16). Title page: Gaetano Gandolfi,Saint Anthony the Great, ca. 1770. Etching. Courtesy Darlene K. Morris Collection (cat. 33). Acknowledgements Dickinson College’s senior Art History Seminar is unique for transporting the works himself to the College during the among undergraduate programs in art history in both process summer of 2015. He was also of great assistance in procuring and outcome. -
Cultural Exchange, Brokerage Networks, and Social Representation
Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/32883 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Goudriaan, Elisa Johanna Title: The cultural importance of Florentine patricians. Cultural exchange, brokerage networks, and social representation in early modern Florence and Rome (1600-1660) Issue Date: 2015-04-30 Patricians as patrons and collectors 109 3 Patricians as patrons and collectors during the reigns of Ferdinand I, Cosimo II, the regents and Ferdinand II de’ Medici Introduction In this chapter we show the versatile patronage of some important patrician families in the period 1600-1650 (although the first major commission started as early as 1581). Until now, the patronage characteristics of different patrician families in the first half of the seventeenth century have never been compared with each other. Thus this analysis, based on the excellent studies of individual patrician families by other researchers, shows how they took example from each other and from members of other Italian elite groups, underlines their joint cultural aspirations, and reveals the development in represented themes over time due to transformations in social aspirations. For the first time an overall picture is given of patrician patronage and collecting in this period. 3.1 Patricians as patrons and collectors during the reigns of ferdinand I and Cosimo II de’ Medici We start by outlining the characteristics of the commissions of four important patricians during the reigns of Ferdinand I and Cosimo II de’ Medici at the be- 110 Chapter Three ginning of the seventeenth century: Giovanni Niccolini and Piero Guicciardini (the ambassadors whose diplomatic activities we analyzed in the previous chap- ter), Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, and Niccolò dell’Antella. -
Art at Auction in Th Century Amsterdam
JOHN MICHAEL MONTIAS This book exploits a trove of original documents that have survived on the auctions organized by the Orphan Chamber of Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. For the first time, the names of some 2000 buyers of works of art at auction in the 29 extant notebooks of the Chamber have been systematically analyzed. On the basis of archival research, data have been assembled on the occupation of these buyers (most of whom were merchants), their origin (Southern Netherlands, Holland, and other), their religion, their year of birth, their date of marriage, the taxes they paid and other indicators of their wealth. Buyers were found to cluster in groups, not only by extended family but by occupation, religion (Remonstrants, Counter-Remonstrants) and avocation (amateurs of tulips and of porcelain, members of Chambers Art at Auction in of Rhetoricians, and so forth). The subjects of the works of art they bought and the artists to which they were attributed are also analyzed. The second part of the book on “Selected Buyers”, is devoted to art dealers who bought at auction and four to buyers who had special connections with artists, including principally Rembrandt. As a whole, the book offers a penetrating insight into the culture of the Amsterdam elite in the seventeenth century. In Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam Montias has created a richly patterned panorama of the interactions between artists, art lovers and art dealers who were active in one of Europe’s most JOHN MICHAEL th Century Amsterdam important art scenes of the 17th century. -
Ars Libri Ltd
ARS LIBRI LTD EARLY ART LITERATURE EARLY ART LITERATURE Catalogue 143 A selection from Ars Libri’s stock of rare books on art Full descriptions and additional illustrations are available at our website, www.arslibri.com. Payment details are supplied at the end of the catalogue. Please contact us for further information. 1 ALBERTOLLI, GIOCONDO. Corso elementare di orna- and designs, they laid the foundations for a style based on a mixture menti architettonici. Ideato e disegnato ad uso de principianti. of ancient Greek and Roman details with others derived from 16th- Engraved title, letterpress leaf of text, and 28 engraved plates (on century Lombard and Florentine art. In his last volume, published heavy stock), by Giacomo Mercoli and Ambrogio Bariolo after in 1805, the range of motifs is the outcome of endless combina- Albertolli. Folio. Contemporary pastepaper boards, 3/4 calf gilt tions, governed by the dictates of the architectural form. The book’s (covers somewhat scuffed). teaching method is based on the student copying the designs until Giocondo Albertolli (1742-1839), the leading member of a distin- perfect before coming to terms with greater difficulties.” Slightly guished Swiss-Italian dynasty of artists, architects and teachers, shaken; small waterstain at foot, at inside margin; a very good copy. was noted for his refined architectural decorations in stucco, at the Milano (L’Autore), 1805. $3,000.00 Villa Pogggio Imperiale outside Florence, at the Palazzo Pitti and Cicognara 288; Brunet I.136; Graesse I.54 the Uffizi, and at the Palazzo Reale in Milano, where he had been brought by Giuseppe Piermarini. -
Trees and Ancient Stories
three Trees and Ancient Stories he stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses are among the most influential and persistent in literary and art history. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in 43 bc in modern Solomona to the east of Rome, and started Twriting Metamorphoses when he was in his forties. He had almost finished the work when he was associated with an unknown scandal which infuriated Augustus so much that Ovid moved to the distant edge of the Roman Empire on the Black Sea and never returned to Rome. Several of the transformations in the extraordinarily vivid, lengthy poem in fifteen books became popular and well-known subjects for painters from the fifteenth century onwards. Their intense analysis of grief, love, power, loss and jealousy allows constant reinterpretation. The classical scholar Denis Feeney tells the entertaining story of a Princeton undergraduate who, halfway through a course Feeney was teaching on Ovid, visited the Metropolitan Museum Art in New York and ‘returned after the weekend intoxicated by her rediscovery of the familiar collections: “It’s all Ovid!”’1 Several of Ovid’s stories concern the transformation of people into trees, while others tell of the creation of trees by gods. One of the best known, from Book 1, concerns Daphne who was loved by Apollo, the son of Jupiter and god of music, literature and medicine. Although she had many aspirant suit- ors ‘Daphne fled from the very thought of a lover’ and instead enjoyed living 45 Attr. Master of the Judgement alone in the forests. She rejected all her admirers and ‘Stubbornly single, she’d of Paris, Daphne Pursued by Apollo, roam through the woodland thickets, without concern for the meaning of c. -
Excerpts of the Lives of Italian Artists from the Book of Painters
Art in Translation ISSN: (Print) 1756-1310 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rfat20 Excerpts of the Lives of Italian Artists from the Book of Painters Karel van Mander & Paul Arblaster (Translator) To cite this article: Karel van Mander & Paul Arblaster (Translator) (2014) Excerpts of the Lives of Italian Artists from the BookofPainters, Art in Translation, 6:3, 245-269, DOI: 10.2752/175613114X14043084852912 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.2752/175613114X14043084852912 Published online: 28 Apr 2015. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 80 Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rfat20 Article Title 245 Art in Translation, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 245–270 DOI: 10.2752/175613114X14043084852912 Reprints available directly from the Publishers. Photocopying permitted by licence only. © 2014 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Excerpts of the Lives of Italian Artists from the Karel van Mander Book of Painters Translated by Abstract Paul Arblaster First published in Dutch as T’leven This excerpt from Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck, originally pub- van Frederijck Zucchero; Het leven lished in Dutch in 1604, is a primary-source text on late sixteenth-cen- van Frederijck Barozio; Het leven van tury Italian artists. Van Mander provides the biographies of a range of Iacob Palma; Van Ioseph van Arpino; T’leven van noch ander Italiaenische Italian painters, including Federico Zuccaro, Federico Barocci, Jacopo Schilders, die teghenwoordigh te Palma, Giuseppe of Arpino, and other contemporary Italian artists. The Room zijn; Van eenige italiaensche text includes two sections devoted to artists based in Rome, and another Vrouwen, die de Teycken-const, en Schilderen constich hebben section focusing on female artists in Italy. -
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard Part Xviii Landscapes and Hunting Scenes Ii • Hunting Scenes
CORPUS RUBENIANUM LUDWIG BURCHARD PART XVIII LANDSCAPES AND HUNTING SCENES II • HUNTING SCENES BY ARNOUT BAUS CORPUS RUBENIANUM LUDWIG BURCHARD ANILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE WORK OF PETER PAUL RUBENS BASED ON THE MATERIAL ASSEMBLED BY THE LATE DR LUDWIG BURCHARD IN TWENTY-SIX PARTS SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF ANTWERP AND EDITED BY THE 'NATIONAAL CENTRUM VOOR DE PLASTISCHE KUNSTEN VAN DE XVIde F.N XVIIde EEUW’ R.-A.D'HULST, President ■ f. b a u d o u in . Secretary ■ r. p a n d e l a e r s . T r e a s u re r N. DE POORTER . A. STUBBE • H. LIEBAERS ■ J. K. STEPPE ■ C. VAN DE VELDE • H. VLIECHE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS: A. BALIS • P. HUVENNE • M. VANDENVEN RUBENS HUNTING SCENES BY ARNOUT BALIS TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH BY P.S. FALLA HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Originating Publisher h a r v e y m il l e r ltd • 20 Marryat Road • London SW19 5bd Published in conjunction with o x f o r d u n iv er sity press Walton Street • Oxford 0x2 6dp London • Glasgow ■ N ew York • Toronto Delhi • Bombay • Calcutta ■ Madras • Karachi Kuala Lumpur ■ Singapore ■ Hong Kong • Tokyo Nairobi ■ Dar es Salaam ■ Cape Town ■ Melbourne ■ Auckland and associated companies in Beirut ■ Berlin ■ Ibadan Mexico Citv ■ Nicosia Published in the United States by o x f o r d u n iv e r s it y pr ess • New York © 1986 Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de i6de en de i7de Eeuw British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Balis, Arnout Rubens hunting scenes.